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The Ninth Level of Hell plotting my slow and painful revenge on the brightly sunlit world...

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I got in my PE-11 Scouting Force X Robot set (a.k.a. Reflector):

This is a variation of the previous release to closer resemble the cartoon version of Reflector:

My first thought when looking at this set was "I thought this would be bigger for the money I paid". It is tiny! But after the initial letdown, I was pretty impressed how cool it looked especially after I applied the Reprolables sticker sheet I had bought for him.

A very cool set but may not be everybody's cup of tea for the price.

Last edited by Benedict Judas Hel; April 16, 2013 at 09:12am.

"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade

"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne

How are Reprolabels sets, for the most part? I hope they're generally better than the WST sets I purchased. I bought sets for WST Blaster, Soundwave, Hot Rod and Optimus Prime and the quality is bad. They're printed on vinyl and the print is very easy to damage. Scratching the surface will do it, even folding the sticker will do it. The adhesive is good but if you put a decal on crooked, you're not getting it off without damage. Frankly, I think I'm better off with the stickers heerotoysmaker throws in with his WSTs for free than I would be to buy any more of these decal sets.

I wanted to cut a small black square to put onto Soundblaster's door tab, and despite cutting out 4 such squares, they each got damaged on the corners very easily. I eventually ditched that and cut a tiny square of electrical tape instead.

I would almost have to think the print and material quality of most of their sets is far better than the WST sticker sheets, just because people aren't complaining about the print being easy to scratch.

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Originally Posted by diosoth

How are Reprolabels sets, for the most part? I hope they're generally better than the WST sets I purchased. I bought sets for WST Blaster, Soundwave, Hot Rod and Optimus Prime and the quality is bad. They're printed on vinyl and the print is very easy to damage. Scratching the surface will do it, even folding the sticker will do it. The adhesive is good but if you put a decal on crooked, you're not getting it off without damage. Frankly, I think I'm better off with the stickers heerotoysmaker throws in with his WSTs for free than I would be to buy any more of these decal sets.

I would almost have to think the print and material quality of most of their sets is far better than the WST sticker sheets, just because people aren't complaining about the print being easy to scratch.

Well, I think the Reprolabels for the Classics and Masterpiece Transformers are excellent and extremely well done. Otherwise I wouldn't keep going back and buying more of them. Now that being said, I've never bought any of their WST sticker sheets (or as they have them on their website, STF) so I can't speak on the quality of those sticker sheets.

But one thing I have learned is that investing in a pair of tweezers has saved me a lot of headache with these tiny stickers. They allow me for more precise sticker placement than my fingers alone could accomplish and therefore don't have to peel stickers off and re-apply them as often.

"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade

"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne

The Ninth Level of Hell plotting my slow and painful revenge on the brightly sunlit world...

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Originally Posted by Scotward

Wow, Benny... that's a Hulk toy that even I didn't buy... did you open it? If so, how does it look out of the box?

Actually, I didn't open it, Scooter. This is intended to be a Christmas gift. But here are some pics of what he looks out of the box:

He feels pretty heavy in the box and is bigger than his Famous Covers counterparts. He is also a bit more expensive than most of them as well. You can find alot of the Famous Covers figures for $10-$20. The Hulk cost me $35 + $13 shipping but the other Amazon sellers had him at $40 at the cheapest. So just a fair warning.

"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade

"It is not by reasoning or by our understanding that we have received our religion; it is by external authority and command."-Michel De Montaigne